The funny thing is I'm always excited to go see Star Wars or Avengers or Spielberg or Nolan films opening night, but over the last few years some of my favorite movies were ones I didnt care enough to see in theaters. Fury Road, Kingsman, Arrival, Creed, Sicario, Ex Machina. Its a shame to miss some...

We usually see movies at the South Side Works. When we figured something would be a huge sell out we'd buy reserved seats at the AMC Waterfront, but now the Cinemark Settlers Ridge has all their seats as reserved. So those are the three theaters I'm most familiar with. Every once in a while I'll end...

I grew up near the South Pike theater and still have family in the area. I still remember when it was called Cinema 356 or whatever it was. I didn't see many movies as a kid but if I did it was either there, Cheswick, or Harmerville.

Anyone hear anything about Rangos giant Cinema yet? Went last night. The screen and sound are equally incredible. Just an amazing way to view a movie. I just wish they had done some modifications to the seating. It’s still the same old extremely vertical seating structure with zero leg room, zero r...

my mom wrapped santa gifts. she was smart enough to even have separate paper for santa vs mom.

the eventual giveaway? the handwriting on the tags.

speaking of movie prices, I'd been considering buying into Movie Pass. The main reason I didn't was because I wanted to see how the Rangos Giant Cinema would shake out. I knew they wouldn't accept Movie Pass, but it looks like they're only going to get a few Hollywood films per year there. My sister...

100 (or maybe its 120 down?) 5 up. Works fine for me. The only time I really need the uplink personally is if I'm away somewhere and want to access my DVR or cable tv subscription.

If my Plex server was more powerful (I'm able to direct play/direct stream most things), and my upstream speed was better (only 5Mbps), I'd share it with more people. I just can't have more than one remote person trying to watch a movie at once on it.

Is there a way to just download the movies and watch later? There are file folders everywhere but I've never seen a download button. Even if it was just one movie at a time that would be fine. If you really want to use it that way I'd suggest using a VPN and looking into Radarr to automate procurin...

I know not everyone is as into a/v stuff as I am, but I can't imagine spending all that money to have a home theater room built into your Treesdale McMansion, getting taken to the cleaners on product mark-ups and "premium" cables, and then be cool with watching a horrible stream of It filmed at an a...

Theres a managing director where I work who wants me to "fix" his 3rd party add-ons since Exodus or whatever he bought doesn't work anymore. Dude makes at least half a million a year and he's like "this saves me so much money from going to the theater"

big ass list of movies so you're still in the "collect everything because hard drives are cheap and why not" game? since kids, i got away from this. i realized there's no chance i'll watch movies i don't explicitly want to watch, and it will be this way for another 10-15 years. it's liberating, but...

Carol for Another Christmas is just strange all the way around. It was the first of several made for tv movies sponsored by the United Nations for the purpose of making Americans think it wasn't worthless (this was made in 1964, not 2017). At that time you wouldn't typically find Hollywood stars doi...

Seek out 'It Happened on 5th Avenue' (1947) for your list.

Thats scheduled to record off TCM on Sunday at 10am!

Those were the ones sponsored by the retail association. They never picked up as much traction on tv. You had to send away for them with mall food court receipts.

A lot of them I copied off my VHS tapes, complete with 1987 era commercials. thats where the nostalgia really hits.

Here is my latest tally on movies in my Christmas Movie Plex/Kodi library: A&E Biography: Santa Claus Bad Santa Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas Beavis and Butthead Do Christmas The Bells of St Marys Bing Crosby and the Sounds of Christmas Bing Crosby's White Christmas All Star USO Show...

I think Gremlins is more of a Christmas movie than Die Hard (not that I'm arguing Die Hard's Christmas credentials).

Too bad Iron Man 3 didn't squeeze a tiny bit more Christmas into it.

TCM has an OTT service (I think). A lot of the MGM library is probably tied up in Warner's service too.

i liked the Michael Bolton ones Honda ran. I wouldn't buy a Honda, but I'd listen to Michael Bolton.

i just wanted to stop by and say all hail the sous vide prime rib. or choice rib i guess we had, either way it was the ultimate tool to cook a standing rib roast for our family party. i wish I wouldve gotten a picture but it took a little bit longer than planned to get sides ready for 10 people so I...

and the documentary Red Dawn was the first film released with a PG13

I've been interested in setting up a Raspberry Pi to run Pi Hole for a while, and I just found out that it can be run on unRAID. I will definitely be trying that out this weekend. Pi Hole was designed to route all internet traffic in a home through the device running it. It then acts as an ad gatewa...

I thought it strange that my Roku looked so bad. Granted I did calibrate my projector for a different color space, but the Roku blacks looked brown. I ran some test MP4s through it and I noticed my black level and color temperature were way off. I knew my receiver had some minor picture adjustments ...

Mrs Claus' parents got me a Roku Premiere+ for Christmas. Never really used one before - I do so much local media playback and I know they're not strong at that. Still, with various streaming services discontinuing support for the Xbox 360 and the myriad of hurdles with the Chromecast and Nexus Play...